Compliance Blog

Posted by Anthony Demangone

Last Friday, I had the good fortune to attend a meeting of the Capital Area Compliance Roundtable.   The Roundtable is a great example of collaboration.  A good number of credit union compliance officers, and a handful of trade peeps and attorneys, gather to chew the collective fat. Area credit unions take turns hosting the event.  We discuss problems and solutions to our compliance conumdrums.  In addition, we invariably trade a few laughs.  I always leave the meeting better off having attended.  If you don't have a roundtable nearby, by all means start one!  

In this meeting, we devoted some time to the art of compliance research.  With that in mind, here are a few tips about Google that can help you reserach.

1. This New York Times article provides 10 Google "tips" that can help focus your searches.  For example, you can use Google to search specific websites, or you can easily exclude certain terms that you don't want to see in results. The tricks are very clever.
2. Don't forget Google Government.  This Google search engine just searches government sites.  This cuts away a lot of the clutter that people like me create on the internet.
3. Google Scholar lets you use Google to search court cases. If you're like me, the first think you'll do is search your last name.

I hope these items are useful.  Happy hunting!